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arts or Emma Powell, the notion for Busting Out, the breast-obsessed stage show that is stunning BACKSTAGE Tom Richardson pundits, “came to me almost a decade ago,when I was running from the shower and heard my left breast give me a round of applause”. Powell calls it “the sound of one tit clapping”. This impromptu plaudit inspired a show that has prompted far more applause, alongside breathless analo- gies of the show as a “female Puppetry of the Penis”. While not scandalised by the comparison, Powell says her show, performed alongside “bosom buddy” Bev Killick, is “a very different creature”. “It’s not just us out there doing tricks, it’s all about a celebration – of women, their bodies and their breasts,” she says. As such, it raises – and answers – difficult questions about pride, beauty and confidence. “The images young women and men get – the idea of what perfection is – are all-pervasive,” says Powell. “I don’t feel bad about my body anymore.” This admission, of course, suggests a time when the opposite was true. Powell says when she was her daughter’s age (she is 40, her daughter 10), the images of faux-perfection inflicted through advertising and They’re part of the show … there’s nothing gratuitous – at every point in the show they’re useful in some way or other. Captain Bruno Courreges is chief of police in St Denis, an idyllic country town in south-west France. Bruno is also the only policeman watching over his little piece of paradise in the Perigord region, with its 2900 souls, and that’s just the way he likes it. His policeman’s notebook is full of recipes and there’s at least one bottle of not-quite-legal eau de vie from a local winemaker waiting for a special occasion. But Bruno is no country bumpkin. He served his country with honour in the Bosnian conflict and is highly regarded by his police and military superiors. For now, Bruno simply chooses to live alone in the farmhouse he built himself with his beloved basset hound Gigi for company. Bruno’s days are a busy round of country policing, coach- ing the local youngsters at tennis and rugby, perfecting his pate making, and admiring the best of local womanhood – he is French, after all. With no warning, St Denis is torn apart by the brutal and ritualistic murder of Hamid al-Bakr, an elderly Algerian immigrant who is the patriarch of a popular local family. The murder enquiry is taken over by detectives from Paris reporting to Tavernier, the ambitious young judge who looks “like an emissary from an advanced and probably hostile civilisation”. To call this a crime novel is seriously underselling this delightful book which is really about life in a very special part of the world. Author Martin Walker lives six- months a year in the Perigord region pop-culture averaged around one or two a week. “Now it’s 50 times a day,” she gasps. Powell believes there is a “backlash” against The Beauty Myth, “because we’re realising it’s an impossibility to get … it’s a perfection you simply can’t achieve”. “I’m not saying I don’t have issues – of course I do, we all do. But doing the show has been really empowering for us as well,” she says. It explores the sexualisation of breasts throughout civilisation, despite the fact that “once they start to sag, biologically they’ve served their purpose”. At which point, according to Powell, “you become a wise woman who can pass on their wisdom of what they’ve learned in their life.” If all this sounds a little heavy- going, despair not. This is a ribald, raunchy, confronting performance containing, if the pre-promotional media release is any guide, no end of cheeky double-entendres. So, in case you’ve missed the point, there’s a bit of nudity involved. Well, quite a lot, actually. “All the top half”, in fact. In the opening minutes, “everyone’s a bit nervous usually”. “We introduce ourselves…We don’t exactly have dinner and a movie, but we introduce ourselves.” Powell says within minutes the nudity is almost incidental. “After a few minutes they’re props, they’re part of the show … there’s nothing gratuitous – at every point in the show they’re useful in some way or other. But they’re the star of the show, and they get very cranky if we don’t give them credit!” BOOK REVIEW Bruno, Chief of Police, Martin Walker where St Denis is set and this local knowledge of its history and people really lift the book. Intimate details about the local farming techniques, the food and wine, the social tensions, and the general history of the area inform every page. Walker himself is interesting with a CV that lists him as Senior Director of the Global Business Policy Council, a private think-tank for CEOs of major corporations, based in Washington DC and an extremely impressive back- ground at the very top of international affairs. He is a journalist, an author, an historian and a thinker. He’s also married to a celebrated foodie, writer Julia Watson, and owns a basset hound. Bruno’s website www.brunochiefofpolice.com is worth a look even if you haven’t read the book. Captain Courreges is up there with Stephanie Plum on my list of crime characters to invite to dinner. In fact, I think Bruno would rather fancy the shapely Stephanie. – Diana Carroll ¦Murdoch Books, $29.95. POET’S CORNER Compiled by John Miles cloudwatching I have seen clouds cling to the side of a skyscraper hitch a ride on the back of a bus I have seen a girl with clouds in her eyes a man with a cloud strapped to his wrist I have seen clouds in jars, in rivers I have stepped on a cloud watched it shiver beneath my feet I have held a cloud in a teaspoon I have seen clouds imitate animals and architecture I have seen a cathedral of cloud fill the western sky a city on its knees, streetlights like candles. Graham Catt writes poetry, short stories and children’s fiction. Readers’ unpublished poems to 30 lines can be emailed, with postal address, to poetscorner@independentweekly.com.au or posted with an SAE to Poetry Editor, Independent Weekly,GPO Box 114, Adelaide 5001. A poetry book is awarded to each contributor. Solutions from 10 2 7 3 1 6 8 5 4 9 The Independent Weekly March 13 - 19, 2009 41 www.independentweekly.com.au Nothing bust the breast F Busting Out’s Emma Powell and Bev Killick. 4 6895713 I N S T A N T A N E O U S 1 8326459 C A D A V E R 5 9741268 U N U A L D E B E Y O N D T 7 2539841 E 3 5614972 S 2 7168394 R 8 1953627 L 6 3472185 S I E 9 4287536 M E G A E R A E R C R L A V E R T C U N T R U E N H S I N G U L A R R A O B I D B Y E A C A S C A D E E G O I I E C L A T P E A T O L L L S D I M E N T I C I N G I A O L S H E E N L Y E P R I M P O S U A B R E A S T P L A T E O S I M P L I C I T A I S T R O N G E U I D I T T O S U R A B B I T S A A S I T U A T E D R Y I E E X T R E M I T I E S L A E D S T A G G E R S A S T A T U E E U L T H B M I L I T I A I N S T R E N G T H E N I N G R